Is it Fall Break already?
If you are completely caught off guard with Fall Break already here – worry no more. We’ve got a great solution to keep your kiddos entertained. It’s fun, engaging, and educational – and most likely, will fit your schedule.
What is it?
Engineering for Kids Fall Break Camps. It’s art, engineering and everything in-between. Kids will build, create, innovate and collaborate with other kids. A team of engineers started Engineering for Kids a year ago and has since been blasting off, building, creating, making, and engineering with hundreds of kids in our area.
Instructors care deeply about exciting kids about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and doing it in a deliberate way. They have a laser focus on two things: 1) encouraging each kid to develop a strong STEM identity – which is helping kids believe that they are capable of learning Math and Science; and 2) helping kids develop a skill set to embrace hard subjects like Math and Science. This skill set is perseverance, to not give up when things get difficult, innovating and thinking critically about how to solve problems, and confidence to see things through.
In Engineering for Kids programs, kids are presented with hands-on engineering projects, video game design classes, robotics and demonstrations to practice using the Engineering Design Process – which is a process for developing solutions to relevant and real problems.
The best part of Engineering for Kids programs is that the kids are having so much fun building life-sized bridges and machines, tinkering with circuits and LEDs, launching bottle rockets and using real tools and advanced technology – that they don’t even notice how much they are learning. Math and Science are simply tools used in making their creations come alive or successfully address an engineering challenge.
What will kids do in Engineering Camp?
Each Day of Fall Break at Engineering for Kids is different. Kids have a choice of Engineering activities from Electrical Circuitry (Makey-Makey, circuitry projects, etc.), Rocketry (bottle rockets), Mechanical building (pumpkin chunking), Computer Programming for kids (Scratch), and playing with robotics (EV3 Mindstorms.) No need for experience, all kids will have a great time learning about how Science, Technology, Engineering and Math play in our world!
Fall Break Engineering Camps are available each week-day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting October 13 through October 31st. Families can choose between one and five days, and extended care is also available (starting as early as 7:30 a.m. and ending at 5:30 p.m.)
So, give yourself a break and do something great for your kids. Enroll them in a Engineering for Kids Fall Camp today! You can receive a special discount of 20% off your next Fall Camp Enrollment – use promotion code: new105.
Engineering for Kids is located at the Streets of SouthGlenn, 6972 S Vine Street, Centennial, CO 80122.
Enroll on their website: www.EngineeringforKids.Com/Denver or call 720-390-7972. Mile High Mamas has partnered with Engineering for Kids on this promotion. Be sure to to read our review of how life-changing this program can be!
Marta
LOVE EFK–both the curriculum and the staff! My son attended five (non-consecutive) weeks of EFK and loved every week. He learned about all types of engineering through hands-on activities–from aerospace to civil–as well as how to program his own pong and platform video games. What makes this program special include the Director, Juanita, and her hand-picked counselors who are consistent and form strong relationships with the kids.
EFK is a bit of a hidden gem. I learned about it from an acquaintance, rather than from the standard summer camp fare outlets. We’ll be back!
Momof4
My kids did a week of EFK camp this summer. They loved it! I had to drag them out of there every afternoon. And when the week was over they begged for another week – which I couldn’t give them because it was full for the rest of the summer! The projects were age-appropriate, hands-on, educational, and tons of fun. I’d totally do this if we had fall break.
Maria
Thank you so much for posting about this – I will be sure to look into this for my son!